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The Dirty, Smelly History of Soap (w/ Cody Cassidy) Sep 30, 2020

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Cody Cassidy is back to talk about how soap was invented. You’ll also learn about a bias that makes people believe poor people have thicker skin, and how good anxiety can help you get things done.

Good Anxiety Can Help You Get Things Done by Reuben Westmaas

Must We Suffer to Succeed? | Journal of Individual Differences | Vol 38, No 2. (2017). Journal of Individual Differences. https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1614-0001/a000228
Dolan, E. W. (2017, July 8). People can use anxiety to motivate themselves, study finds. PsyPost; PsyPost. https://www.psypost.org/2017/07/people-can-use-anxiety-motivate-study-finds-49274

Society Perceives the Poor to Have a "Thick Skin" Compared to Others by Kelsey Donk

Society perceives the poor as less affected by distress than those with more means. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/puww-spt081720.php
Cheek, N. N., & Shafir, E. (2020). The thick skin bias in judgments about people in poverty. Behavioural Public Policy, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.33

Additional resources from author Cody Cassidy:

Pick up “Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History” on Amazon: https://amazon.com
Cody Cassidy’s articles on Wired: https://www.wired.com/author/cody-cassidy/
Cody Cassidy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyCassidy

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Who Ate the First Oyster? (w/ Cody Cassidy) Sep 29, 2020

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Learn about why we remember things in the opposite order as we see them and how spiders use atmospheric electricity to balloon through the air. You’ll also learn who actually ate the first oyster from author Cody Cassidy.

You Remember in the Opposite Order as You See by Reuben Westmaas

Human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them: Study challenges traditional hierarchy of brain decoding; offers insight into how the brain makes perceptual judgements. (2017). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171009154946.htm
Ding, S., Cueva, C. J., Tsodyks, M., & Qian, N. (2017). Visual perception as retrospective Bayesian decoding from high-to low-level features. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706906114
Mohs, R. (2007, May 8). How Human Memory Works. HowStuffWorks. https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/human-memory1.htm

Ballooning spiders surf on electric fields by Cameron Duke

Kuchment, A. (2012). How Spiders “Balloon.” Scientific American, 307(1), 28–28. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0712-28b
Martin Lister. (2020). Ypsyork.Org. https://www.ypsyork.org/resources/yorkshire-scientists-and-innovators/dr-martin-lister/
Palermo, E. (2015, May 15). Cloudy with a Chance of Arachnids? “Spider Rain” Explained. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/50856-spider-rain-explained.html
Morley, E. L., & Robert, D. (2018). Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders. Current Biology, 28(14), 2324-2330.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.057
Spiders go ballooning on electric fields. (2018, July 5). Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-spiders-ballooning-electric-fields.html
Science Magazine. (2018). Watch a ‘ballooning’ spider take flight [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrS0igctMi0
Yong, E. (2018, July 5). Spiders Use Earth’s Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Miles. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

Additional resources from author Cody Cassidy:

Pick up “Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History” on Amazon: https://amazon.com
Cody Cassidy’s articles on Wired: https://www.wired.com/author/cody-cassidy/
Cody Cassidy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyCassidy

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Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science (Again!) Sep 28, 2020

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Learn how swapping bodies with our pals can alter the way we view ourselves, why California’s redwoods have been able to survive relentless wildfires, and the real reason there are colorful bumps on the sidewalk. (If this episode sounds familiar, congratulations! You got the episode that escaped a week ago. Oops! This one is cleaned up and ready for prime-time.)

A study had friends "swap bodies" and it totally changed their sense of self by Grant Currin

Nield, D. (2020). “Swapping Bodies” With a Friend Swaps Your Beliefs, Strange Experiment Reveals. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-study-shows-swapping-bodies-with-a-friend-also-swaps-your-beliefs
Cosmos. (2020, August 27). A body swap could mess with your mind. Cosmos Magazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/body-and-mind/a-body-swap-could-mess-with-your-mind/
Tacikowski, P., Weijs, M. L., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2020). Perception of Our Own Body Influences Self-Concept and Self-Incoherence Impairs Episodic Memory. IScience, 101429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101429

How did California's giant redwoods survive the raging wildfires? By Cameron Duke

Choi, C. Q. (2020, August 21). Will California’s giant redwoods survive the raging wildfires? Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/will-california-redwoods-survive-wildfires.html
Guardian staff reporter. (2020, August 25). ‘The forest is not gone’: California’s ancient redwoods survive wildfires. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/25/redwoods-california-fires-trees-survival
How Trees Survive and Thrive After A Fire - National Forest Foundation. (2015). Nationalforests.Org. https://www.nationalforests.org/our-forests/your-national-forests-magazine/how-trees-survive-and-thrive-after-a-fire
Luna, T. (2008). Vegetative propagation of coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens(Lamb. ex D. Don) Endl.). Native Plants Journal, 9(1), 25–28. https://doi.org/10.2979/npj.2008.9.1.25
The redwoods of Coast and Sierra. (2020). Nps.Gov. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/shirley/sec6.htm
Thompson, A. (2020, August 26). Can redwoods Survive the Devastating California Wildfires? Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-redwoods-survive-the-devastating-california-wildfires/

Those Bumps On The Sidewalk Are There For A Good Reason by Anna Todd

DfT, I. M. (2003). Guidance on the Use of Tactile Paving Surfaces. Department for Transport, London, UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-the-use-of-tactile-paving-surfaces
How Seiichi Miyake and Tactile Paving Changed the World for Visually Impaired People. (2019, March 18). Mentalfloss.Com. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/577187/seiichi-miyake-and-tactile-paving-google-doodle
Scott, T. (2017). The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPymLgfXSY

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Why Don't We Sneeze in Our Sleep? Sep 25, 2020

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Scientists renamed human genes because of Microsoft Excel by Grant Currin

Vincent, J. (2020, August 6). Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates. The Verge; The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates
Ziemann, M., Eren, Y., & El-Osta, A. (2016). Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature. Genome Biology, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
Bruford, E. A., Braschi, B., Denny, P., Jones, T. E. M., Seal, R. L., & Tweedie, S. (2020). Guidelines for human gene nomenclature. Nature Genetics, 52(8), 754–758. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-0669-3

A new study finds that the person you choose isn't as important as the relationship you build by Kelsey Donk

Betuel, E. (2020, July 27). Landmark study on 11,196 couples pinpoints what dating apps get so wrong. Inverse; Inverse. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/dating-study-predicts-happy-relationships
Joel, S., Eastwick, P. W., Allison, C. J., Arriaga, X. B., Baker, Z. G., Bar-Kalifa, E., Bergeron, S., Birnbaum, G. E., Brock, R. L., Brumbaugh, C. C., Carmichael, C. L., Chen, S., Clarke, J., Cobb, R. J., Coolsen, M. K., Davis, J., de Jong, D. C., Debrot, A., DeHaas, E. C., … Wolf, S. (2020). Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(32), 19061–19071. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917036117

Why don't we sneeze or burp in our sleep? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Natalie)

Shieh, M. (2017). Is it possible to sneeze while you are sleeping? Popular Science. https://www.popsci.com/sneeze-sleep/
Villazon, L. (2019). Can you sneeze in your sleep? BBC Science Focus Magazine; BBC Science Focus Magazine. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/can-you-sneeze-in-your-sleep/
Do people sneeze in their sleep without waking up? (2008, July 31). Mentalfloss.Com. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/19227/do-people-sneeze-their-sleep-without-waking
Repasky, D. (2019, January 3). Swallowing Air with CPAP (Aerophagia): Causes and Solutions | CPAP.com Blog. CPAP.Com Blog. https://www.cpap.com/blog/swallowing-air-with-cpap-aerophagia/
Karamanolis, G., Triantafyllou, K., Tsiamoulos, Z., Polymeros, D., Kalli, T., Misailidis, N., Liakakos, T., & Ladas, S. D. (2009). Effect of Sleep on Excessive Belching. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1. https://doi.org/10.1097/mcg.0b013e3181bd885e
Bredenoord, A. J. (2013). Management of Belching, Hiccups, and Aerophagia. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 11(1), 6–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2012.09.006
Imran Khawaja, Spurling, B. C., & Shantanu Singh. (2020, July 19). REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. Nih.Gov; StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK534239/
Brain Basics: Understanding Sleep | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. (2020). Nih.Gov. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/patient-caregiver-education/understanding-sleep#2

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The Math Bias That Makes You Misjudge COVID-19 Sep 24, 2020

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Learn how the mathematical mistake of exponential growth bias makes people underestimate the spread of COVID-19, how crocodiles have survived since the dinosaurs, and how puns activate both sides of the brain.

"Exponential growth bias" can make people underestimate COVID-19 by Steffie Drucker

Robson, D. (2020). Exponential growth bias: The numerical error behind Covid-19. BBC.Com. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200812-exponential-growth-bias-the-numerical-error-behind-covid-19
Shlomo Benartzi. (2019, June 17). If You Don’t Save Enough, Perhaps You Have ‘Exponential Growth Bias.’ WSJ; The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-dont-save-enough-perhaps-you-have-exponential-growth-bias-11560737101
Dispatch 1: Numbers | Radiolab | WNYC Studios. (2020). WNYC Studios. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispatch-numbers
Lammers, J., Crusius, J., & Gast, A. (2020). Correcting misperceptions of exponential coronavirus growth increases support for social distancing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(28), 16264–16266. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006048117
Banerjee, R., Bhattacharya, J., & Majumdar, P. (2020). Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures in the times of COVID-19. ArXiv.Org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01273

Crocodiles Are Prehistoric Monsters Who Survived The Dinosaur's Extinction by Reuben Westmaas

Pappas, S. (2017, July 5). Super Croc with T. Rex Teeth May Have Chowed Down on Dinosaurs. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/59697-super-croc-with-t-rex-teeth-ate-dinosaurs.html
Osborne, H. (2017, July 4). Ancient Giant “Ghost” Crocodile With T-Rex-Sized Teeth Discovered in Madagascar. Newsweek; Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-giant-crocodie-t-rex-teeth-madagascar-631590
Nova. (1998, April 28). The Extraordinary Lives of Crocs. Pbs.Org; Nova. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/extraordinary-lives-of-crocs/

“Getting” Puns Means Both Sides of Your Brain Are Working Together by Reuben Westmaas

Original episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/nasa-cryosleep-chambers-your-brain-on-puns-why-red/

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Wildfires Can Create Their Own Storms Sep 23, 2020

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Learn about how wildfires are powerful enough to create their own storms, how the invention of bags influenced human evolution, and how announcers with low voices can make products larger.

Wildfires can create their own storms by Cameron Duke

Specktor, B. (2017, December 12). What Are Pyrocumulus Clouds? California Fires Spawn Eerie Formations. Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/61167-what-are-pyrocumulus-clouds.html
Cunningham, P., & Reeder, M. J. (2009). Severe convective storms initiated by intense wildfires: Numerical simulations of pyro-convection and pyro-tornadogenesis. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl039262
What Makes a Firenado? (2020, August 23). Sierra Club. https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/what-makes-firenado#:~:text=During%20the%20Carr%20Fire%20in
WMO. (2017). Flammagenitus | International Cloud Atlas. International Cloud Atlas. https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/en/flammagenitus.html
NASA - Fire-Breathing Storm Systems. (2010). Nasa.Gov. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/pyrocb.html

How bags enabled human evolution by Cameron Duke

Bell, B. (2017, June 4). Who killed Oetzi the Iceman? BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40104139
Hardy, B. L., Moncel, M.-H., Kerfant, C., Lebon, M., Bellot-Gurlet, L., & Mélard, N. (2020). Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61839-w
Langley, M. C., & Suddendorf, T. (2020). Mobile containers in human cognitive evolution studies: Understudied and underrepresented. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21857
Langley, M., & Suddendorf, T. (2020, August 12). Got your bag? The critical place of mobile containers in human evolution. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/got-your-bag-the-critical-place-of-mobile-containers-in-human-evolution-142712

Deep Voices And Low Pitches Make Products Seem Larger by Stephanie Bucklin

Lowe, M. L., & Haws, K. L. (2017). Sounds Big: The Effects of Acoustic Pitch on Product Perceptions. Journal of Marketing Research, 54(2), 331–346. https://doi.org/10.1509/jmr.14.0300
When It Comes to Size, Sound Matters in Ads. (2017). Gatech.Edu. http://www.news.gatech.edu/2017/04/13/when-it-comes-size-sound-matters-ads
Wehner, M. (2017, April 15). Arby’s Voice: How Deep Voices Affect Your Mind. BGR; BGR. https://bgr.com/2017/04/14/arbys-voice-advertising-research/
N. Gutierrez. (2017, April 17). What Sounds Have To Do With Making Products, Foods Appear Larger In Commercial Ads. Science Times. http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/12579/20170417/what-sounds-making-products-foods-appear-larger-commercial-ads.htm
Mondloch, C. J., & Maurer, D. (2004). Do small white balls squeak? Pitch-object correspondences in young children. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4(2), 133–136. https://doi.org/10.3758/cabn.4.2.133
Morton, E..S. (19 77). On the Occurrence and Significance of Motivation-Structural Rules in Some Bird and Mammal Sounds. The American Naturalist. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/283219

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Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking Sep 22, 2020

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Learn about how rats might not have been all to blame for the bubonic plagues and why we’re more prone to mindlessly eat while we multitask.

When It Comes to the Black Death, the Rats May Have Been Framed by Ashley Hamer

History.com Editors. (2010, September 17). Black Death. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death
Gill, V. (2018, January 15). Black Death “spread by humans not rats.” BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42690577
Dean, K. R., Krauer, F., Walløe, L., Lingjærde, O. C., Bramanti, B., Stenseth, N. C., & Schmid, B. V. (2018). Human ectoparasites and the spread of plague in Europe during the Second Pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(6), 1304–1309. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715640115

Multitasking might make you keep snacking even when you're full by Kelsey Donk

Ford, A. (2020) TV-watching snackers beware: you won’t notice you’re full if your attention is elsewhere. University of Sussex. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=52535
Morris, J., Vi, C. T., Obrist, M., Forster, S., & Yeomans, M. R. (2020). Ingested but not perceived: Response to satiety cues disrupted by perceptual load. Appetite, 104813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104813

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Why Do Young People Have More Déjà Vu? Sep 21, 2020

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Learn about whether animals can predict earthquakes, why younger folks experience déjà vu more often, and how software that helped us reach the moon was literally woven by hand.

Can Animals Really Sense an Earthquake Coming? A New Study Says Yes by Grant Currin

Pratik Pawar. (2020, July 22). Animals Sense Earthquakes Before They Happen. Can They Help Us Predict Disasters? Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/animals-sense-earthquakes-before-they-happen-can-they-help-us-predict
Averett, N. (2020, July 31). Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes? Sensors Hint They Do. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-animals-really-anticipate-earthquakes-sensors-hint-they-do/
The sixth sense of animals. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/m-tss070320.php
Wikelski, M., Mueller, U., Scocco, P., Catorci, A., Desinov, L. V., Belyaev, M. Y., Keim, D., Pohlmeier, W., Fechteler, G., & Martin Mai, P. (2020). Potential short‐term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring. Ethology. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13078

Why Do Young People Experience More Déjà Vu? By Ashley Hamer

Focal Onset Aware Seizures (simple partial seizures). (2017). Epilepsy Foundation. https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/focal-onset-aware-seizures-aka-simple-partial-seizures
Brown, A. S. (2003). A review of the deja vu experience. Psychological bulletin, 129(3), 394. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.129.3.394
Teale, J. C. (2015, March 3). What is Déjà Vu? Scientific American Blog Network. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/frontiers-for-young-minds/what-is-d-233-j-224-vu/

The Apollo Missions Used Guidance Software That Was Literally Woven by Hand by Ashley Hamer

Brock, D.C. (September 2017). Software as Hardware: Apollo’s Rope Memory. IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/software-as-hardware-apollos-rope-memory
John R. Garman Oral History. (2010). Nasa.Gov. https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/GarmanJR/GarmanJR_3-27-01.htm
McMillan, R. (2015, October 13). Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/

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Children Led a Research Project, Painting Eyes on Cow Butts, and Whether to Rinse Your Recycling Sep 18, 2020

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Learn about how children led their own research project into what they really think of adults, how painting eyes on cow butts could help solve a wildlife conservation problem, and whether it’s a good idea to rinse out your recycling.

Children led a research project into what they really think of adults by Kelsey Donk

Maynard, E., & Barton, S. (2020, August 7). Children reveal what they really think of adults – in their own research paper. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/children-reveal-what-they-really-think-of-adults-in-their-own-research-paper-144025
Because ‘grown-ups don’t always get it right’: Allyship with children in research – from research question to authorship. (2020). Qualitative Research in Psychology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14780887.2020.1794086?journalCode=uqrp20

Painting eyes on cow butts may help solve a key wildlife conservation problem by Cameron Duke

Radford, C., Jordan, N. R., & Rogers, T. (2020, August 7). Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/lions-are-less-likely-to-attack-cattle-with-eyes-painted-on-their-backsides-142488
Radford, C., McNutt, J. W., Rogers, T., Maslen, B., & Jordan, N. (2020). Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores. Communications Biology, 3(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01156-0

Is it wasteful to rinse out recycling? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Lydia)

Douglas, N. (2018, June 12). How to Rinse Your Recyclables Without Wasting Water. Lifehacker. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-rinse-your-recyclables-without-wasting-water-1826764672
Nina Shen Rastogi. (2009, February 3). Is it worth it to wash out your recyclables? Slate Magazine. https://slate.com/technology/2009/02/is-it-worth-it-to-wash-out-your-recyclables.html
Should you rinse your recyclables? | Recycle Coach. (2019, September 16). Recycle Coach. https://recyclecoach.com/residents/blog/should-you-rinse-your-recyclables/
Thornton, T. (2017, May 28). Why you’re almost certainly wasting time rinsing your recycling. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/why-youre-almost-certainly-wasting-time-rinsing-your-recycling-78189

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Why You Think You’re Too Smart for Ads, Studying Violinists to Understand Human Synchrony, and Relieving Pain by Holding Hands Sep 17, 2020

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Learn about how a phenomenon called the third-person effect makes us think we’re too smart for advertising to work on us, why scientists used violinists to study how humans sync in a complex network, and why you can relieve pain by holding hands!

The Third-Person Effect Is Why We All Think We’re Too Smart for Ad Campaigns by Anna Todd

Davison, W. P. (1983). The Third-Person Effect in Communication. Public Opinion Quarterly, 47(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1086/268763
Third-Person Effect and Pandemic Flu: The Role of Severity, Self-Efficacy Method Mentions, and Message Source. (2016). Journal of Health Communication. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10810730.2016.1245801?journalCode=uhcm20
The Influence of Presumed Fake News Influence: Examining Public Support for Corporate Corrective Response, Media Literacy Interventions, and Governmental Regulation. (2020). Mass Communication and Society. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15205436.2020.1750656?journalCode=hmcs20
McLeod, D. M., Eveland, W. P., & Nathanson, A. I. (1997). Support for Censorship of Violent and Misogynic Rap Lyrics. Communication Research, 24(2), 153–174. https://doi.org/10.1177/009365097024002003

Scientists used violinists to study how humans sync in a complex network by Grant Currin

Elad Shniderman. (2020, August 25). Sync Variations. Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/394199689
What violin synchronization can teach us about better networking in complex times. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/sbu-wvs081120.php
Shahal, S., Wurzberg, A., Sibony, I., Duadi, H., Shniderman, E., Weymouth, D., Davidson, N., & Fridman, M. (2020). Synchronization of complex human networks. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17540-7
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